Miss Western: Well, unless I am deceived, my niece is desperately in love.Squire Western: In love! In love! Without my conse...nt! I'll disinherit her, and turn her out of doors stark naked without a farthing. Where is she?Miss Western: Supposing she should have fixed on the very person you would have wished?Squire Western: No, no. She can love who she pleases, but she'll marry the man I chose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that... is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever you are? You're chicken. You've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and... say, "Okay, life's a fact. People do fall in love. People do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are sup...posed to return. They say, "Please fill out and return the enclosed envelope," and the enclosed envelope is always one-quarter of an inch too small.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It so happened that, a few weeks later, "Old Ernie" [Ernest Hemingway] himself was using my room in New York as a hide-out from li...terary columnists and reporters during one of his rare stopover visits between Africa and Key West. On such all-too-rare occasions he lends an air of virility to my dainty apartment which I miss sorely after he has gone and all the furniture has been repaired.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lights... are being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I'll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When the white frock is laid aside, the bigger miss seats herself in public at a ball, expecting every moment to be chosen by some... man for a partner for that evening. If she is balked, what galling disappointment doth she feel within! Her heart is ready to burst with envy at all those who are so happy as to be taken out.... The same expectation of being chosen out as a partner for life continues from miss of fifteen to miss of _____ ... but the woman who is continually expecting great offers of marriage, which may never happen, knows not when to give up her expectations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

"My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?..." JOHNSON. "... I think him one of the wor...st of men; a rascal who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been...." BOSWELL. "I don't deny, Sir, but that his novel may, perhaps, do harm; but I cannot think his intention was bad." JOHNSON. "Sir, that will not do. We cannot prove any man's intention to be bad. You may shoot a man through the head, and say you intended to miss him; but the Judge will order you to be hanged."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »